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Seven-foot statue unveiled honoring Magawa, award-winning rat who found more than 100 landmines in Cambodia

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Seven-foot statue unveiled honoring Magawa, award-winning rat who found more than 100 landmines in Cambodia
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A landmine-sniffing rat who won a gold medal for "life-saving devotion to duty" in Cambodia has been honored with a massive stone statue.Magawa, a rat who gained fame in the country for sniffing out more than 100 mines (more than 1.5 million square feet) in his five-year career — more than any other rat in the country — retired in 2021 and died at eight years old in 2022.The African giant pouched rat was trained by the Belgian charity APOPO to use his keen sense of smell to sniff out landmines a

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